Triest Trst Trieszt Trieste Tourism Informations and city Portal

The National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is a state institution whose mission is to carry out basic, experimental and theoretical research in nuclear, subnuclear and astro-particle physics and develop the instrumentation and methods relevant to such research. Is an organization dedicated to the study of the fundamental constituents of matter, and conducts theoretical and experimental research in the fields of subnuclear, nuclear, and astroparticle physics.

Fundamental research in these areas requires the use of cutting-edge technologies and instrumentation, which the INFN develops both in its own laboratories and in collaboration with the world of industry.

Moreover, INFN promotes the application of the skills, methods, and experimental techniques developed in the course of its own research to research in other fields, such as medicine, artistic preservation, and environmental protection. These activities are conducted in close collaboration with the academic world.

Groups from the universities of Rome, Padua, Turin, and Milan founded INFN on August 8, 1951 for the purpose of building upon the scientific tradition established during the 1930's by Enrico Fermi and his school, with their theoretical and experimental research in nuclear physics.

The aim of subnuclear physics is to identify the constituent elements of matter and their properties and to formulate the laws governing their interactions. These laws are the fundamental laws of the universe, which entails important theoretical and experimental links with astrophysics, the physics of cosmic radiation and cosmology, which go to make up the field of astro-particle physics.
The aim of nuclear physics is to study the properties of atomic nuclei and the possible phases and phase transitions of nuclear matter at different densities, taking account of knowledge of the constituent elements of matter and the basic laws governing their interaction. Work in these fields ranges from the laboratory study of nuclear reactions to stellar nuclear astrophysics.

The Institute conducts its own technological research to develop the instrumentation that has to combine ground-breaking performances and innovative methods to work in such specialised fields. This involves a wide range of applied research - including mathematical and numerical techniques, micro-electronics, computer networks, super-calculus and digital radiology - which constitutes an efficient and spontaneous mechanism of scientific training and technology transfer.

Together with the Associated Group in Udine, the Trieste Section takes part in all the INFN institutional research sectors. Besides maintaining close links with local and national scientific institutions, the researchers in the Trieste Section are engaged in a wide range of top-level international projects, in which they play a leading role.

INFN research activities are organized in five national groups, working on different projects:

1. Particle physics
2. Astroparticle physics
3. Nuclear physics
4. Theoretical physics
5. Technological research

 Recent results of INFN Trieste activities:

• Experiment Matisse: article on "Il Piccolo". Local representative: E. Castelli
• Experiment MAGIC: Variable Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Microquasar LS I +61 303
  On Science/AAAS site. Local representatives: A. De Angelis, F. Longo
• Experiment CDF: Fermilab's CDF scientists present a precision measurement of a subtle dance between matter and antimatter" . Referente locale: A. M. Zanetti